Smaranda Galis Quotes & Sayings

It is easy to love but difficult to forget, so love every moment to create an enormous unforgettable memory. — Debasish Mridha

It was nice to be in my own country, where I didn't need a translator or a driver. Where I didn't need to figure out cultural references or what hijab I needed to wear to cover my hair. — Lynsey Addario

It's true that people do assume that people who are critical are smarter than people who are uncritical. — Gretchen Rubin

If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long. — Salman Rushdie

But I am not sure what this self is. For the moment I seem to be busy tearing down what I was. — Anais Nin

Like a cup of coffee or a hot shower, William's smile was the perfect way to begin the day. Before school, Kelly would often open the front door to discover that smile waiting for him. Or if it was his turn to drive, he would cruise over to William's house, park in the driveway and sit on the hood of the car , casually waiting for it to appear. And there it would be. That smile, lighting up the world and making Kelly's insides buzz. — Jay Bell

I tell her we all shall fly so soon, not to let it grieve her, and what indeed is Earth but a Nest, from whose rim we are all falling? — Emily Dickinson

I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are. — Cynthia Nixon

Colonel Jack Jacobs is a good guy. And I see him on occasion. — Donald Trump

The Standard Pace is for chumps. — Timothy Ferriss

Believing in the Jesus of the Bible makes life risky on a lot of levels because it is absolute surrender of every decision we make, every dollar we spend, our lives belong to another. — David Platt

Basically I am a low-culture person. I prefer watching baseball with a beer and some meatballs. — Woody Allen

My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they're doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an insanely rapid pace. You want to be screwing around with nearly everything. Relentless experimentation was probably important in the 1970s-now it's do or die. — Tom Peters

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states. — Franjo Tudjman

As it happens, the first souvenir I bought was a dried llama fetus. Revolting as it may sound, my poor stillborn llama is actually rather cute. Frozen in the fetal position and dried stiff like beef jerky, it has the gentle, smiling face of a camel and plenty of soft, if slightly formaldehyde-scented, fur. I bought the llama fetus partly because it horrified me, but also for educational purposes, so that my eight-year-old daughter Sophia could show it to her class. (She refused.)
Bolivians buy llama fetuses to ward off evil in its many guises. Bolivian miners - who, with a life expectancy of forty-five years, basically live their entire adult lives dying - look to llama fetuses for protection against dynamite explosions and the lung-destroying silicon particulates they inhale all day. Downing high-proof alcohol also helps. "The purer the alcohol, the purer the minerals I find," one miner told me wryly. — Amy Chua